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What does the business process include

Economy is production or life savings, thrift, the former includes saving money, material materials and labor, etc., boils down to the saving of labor time, that is, with as little labor consumption to produce as much as possible the results of the needs of society. The latter refers to individuals or families being careful in their consumption of life, using less consumption of consumer goods to meet the greatest needs. In short, economy is the use of less human, material, financial, time and space to obtain greater results or benefits;

2. Economy is the state of income and expenditure of the state or enterprises or individuals, such as gross national product, total social output, production and efficiency of enterprises, and income and expenditure of individuals;

3. Economy is the synthesis and Simplified. (such as "knowledge of the economy" (Jinshu Ji Zhan), "all have the economic way but the position does not meet" (Sui Wang Tong, "Wen Wenzi Zhongshu" Volume VI). Its meaning includes how the state manages its finances, how it manages all kinds of economic activities, and how it deals with political, legal, military, and educational issues, i.e., what it means to govern the state and to save the common people;

4. Economy is household management (see [Ancient Greek] Xenophon's Treatise on Economy);

5. Economy is the art of earning a living by acquiring goods of useable value necessary for life and useful to the family and the state. State (see [Ancient Greek] Aristotle: Politics).

The first and second explanations reflect the customary use of the word economy in daily life; the third explanation is the ancient use of the word economy in China; the fourth and fifth explanations are the ancient Greek use of the word economy.

(2) Interpretation of the term "economy" in the works of traditional political economy

6. Economy refers to the sum of social relations of production. It refers to the sum of the relations of production or the socio-economic system that people form in the process of production of material materials and that corresponds to the productive forces of a certain society, and it is the basis on which the superstructure, such as politics, law, philosophy, religion, literature, and the arts, is built;

7. The economy refers to the process of production and reproduction of material materials of a society. It includes the process of direct production of material materials and the process of exchange, distribution and consumption determined by it. Its content includes both the productive forces and the relations of production, but mainly refers to the productive forces;

8. Economy is the general term for the national economy of a country. It includes all of a country's material material production sector and its activities and part of the non-material production sector and its activities. We usually speak of the economic situation of different countries in terms of the national economy (this definition commits a logical error, i.e. circular definition).

9. Economy is the "saving" of human, financial, material and time resources and their efficient use.